Can You See

Can You See? 

as you gaze

what is unique about 

the seas in mid-July, 

sparkling fjords in August

3.6 billion year old rocks, 

a wall of ice that used to 

stretch on forever 

but is now melting into oblivion, 

purplish gray and green soils, 

stream carved canyons, and 

vast flatlands in early March? 

cut through the limits 

of your perceptions

or hurl them onto 

granite-strewn hillsides. 

what future can you see now?